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SHERMAN E. ANTHONY, OF STILLVATEB, NEV YORK.

SASH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,728, dated December 2,1884.

' Application led April 11, 1884. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, SHERMAN E. ANTHONY, a'v citizen of the United States, and a resident of Stillwater, in the county of Saratoga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a view of a portion of the frame and sash of a window provided with my improved sash-holder, showing a portion of the jamb of the frame broken away. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holder; and Fig. 3 is vertical sect-ion of the frame, sash, and holder.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

My invention has relation to sash-holders;

andit consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the sameas hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

' In theaccompanying drawings, the letterA indicates the sash, and'B the jamb of the window-frame, and a recess, C, V-shaped in section, is cut in the inner side of the jamb, facing the edge of the sash with its open side. A plate, vI), is secured upon the lower inclined side of this recess by means of a screw or similar fastening, and the upper edge of the plate, which is in the inner corner of the recess, forms the central eye, E, of a pintle-hinge, a pintle, F, passing through the said eye. The inner edge of aplate, G, forms eyes H, curved upward, which turn uponthe pintle at both sides of the central eye of the other plate, and the outer edge of plate G forms an outwardlybent sharpened edge, I, adapted to bite in the edge of the sash. A flat arm, J, is secured with its inner end to the edge of plate G, being preferably integral with the hinged plate, and bent in a plane at right angle tothe plane of the said plate, and projects out from the jamb before the face of the sash. It will be seen that when this fastener is secured with the base-plate upon the lower side of the re- 5o cess the hinged plate will swing freely upward, allowing the sash to behoisted, but will bite in the edge of the sash when the latter is released, falling outward by its own gravity, thus preventing the sash from sliding downward, excepting when the hinged plate is raised by the arm, which projects in front of the face of the'sash, between the latter and the side of the groove for the sash in the j amb, when the Vsash may be lowered. It will also be seen that by having the eyes of the hinge bent upward, the eyes of the hinged plate being bent in the same direction as the eye of the baseplate, the weight of the sash falling upon the outer edge of the hinged plate will bear through the plate upon the inner end of the same, which by this construction of hinge rests upon the upper end of the base-plate, thus removing all strain from the hinge andplacing it all upon the plates. By turning the edge of the hinged plate to face downward the said plate will prevent the sash from being raised, thus serving as a sash-lock.

I prefer to make the plates of sheet metal, stamped out and bent to shape, the arm being stamped out in the same plane as the hinged plate and integral therewith, and thereupon bent at a right angle to the same, the entire holder thus consisting of only three pieces; but it follows that I may make the parts of the holder of any suitable material and by any suitable process.`

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States* l. The combination of a jamb of a window- 8 5 frame having a V-shaped recess in its inner side, a window-sash, and a sash-holder consisting of a base-plate secured to the lower side 'of the'recess, formed with a pintle-eye at its inner end, a pintle fitting in the eye, and a hinged plate formed with pintle-eyes at its inner edge, having its outer edge slightly sharpened, and provided at one edge with an arm projecting in front of the face ofthe sash, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. As an article of manufacture, a sashholder consisting of a baseplate having a screw-hole, and formed with a pintle-eye at one edge, a pintle, and a hinged plate formed with pintle-eyes at one edge, bent in the same roo direction as the pintle-eye of the base-plate and turning upon the pintle, having its outer edge slightly sharpened, and provided with an outwardly-projeoting at ann having its faces in a plane at right angles to the faces of the hinged plate, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto a'fxed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

SHERMAN E. ANTHONY.

IVitnesses:

IVM. SECHER, ARTHUR L. MoRsELL. 

